Pass · United Kingdom

Buttertubs Pass

522 m1,713 ft

Tonight: 3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 28 km/h W

Buttertubs Pass is a mountain pass at 522 m in United Kingdom.

All facts

Saddle: 522 m
Lowest point: 341 m / 346 m

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Pass

Buttertubs Pass: the climb from each side

No mapped road or trail crosses the saddle.

Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.

3D map

Buttertubs Pass 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Buttertubs Pass terrain and contours

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

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Buttertubs Pass elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Buttertubs Pass weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 28 km/h W

Buttertubs Pass forecast for about 522 m.

Tonight3°–28 km/h W
Today3°8°24.8 mm49 km/h W
Sun5°7°3.2 mm53 km/h W
Mon5°12°8.4 mm37 km/h SW
Tue6°11°12.0 mm41 km/h SW
Wed8°9°3.4 mm31 km/h W
Thu7°9°0.1 mm14 km/h S
Fri7°9°2.9 mm19 km/h SE
Sat3°8°8.0 mm24 km/h SE
Sun3°5°0.6 mm25 km/h NW

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 85% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

85.0%

Moderate, 15–30°

14.7%

Steep, 30–45°

0.4%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.4% of the 64 km² view
Relief in view: 473 m low point 241 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 98.1%Trees 1.9%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 4 km of Buttertubs Pass.

Summit list 4

1Lovely Seat675 m 1.2 km ESE
2Round Hill591 m 1.4 km WSW
3Little Shunner Fell653 m 1.7 km NNW
4Great Shunner Fell716 m 2.6 km NW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4 km; 112 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Red Grouse5
Common Spotted Orchid4
Common bilberry4
Ring Ouzel3
European Common Frog3
Soft Rush3

Where it sits

Where Buttertubs Pass sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Arkengarthdale15 km NE

Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGButtertubs Pass satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-09-22.

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-09-22)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia